The disappointing aspect of this unit is the user interface (UI). It is crude, clunky, and unintuitive. There are, of course, reasons for some of this. To avoid TiVo and TV Guide patent infringements, the Digital Stream cannot use any guide information and many of the DVR “trick” features to facilitate recording scheduling and playback. So, the UI is essentially a mid-1980’s VCR interface replica replete with the same text fonts. If not for the HD capability, one could acquire a VCR with an ATSC tuner and achieve the same result.